It's our fourth day in Tokyo (day 3 here: ♥♥♥). We start to feel the jet lag. This morning we wake up a bit late to go to Tsukiji fish market, and never mind for tuna auctions! It's about 10 AM when we reach the world biggest open outcry. We go out of the metro station and notice that the place is packed. It is the day before new year eve and people are here to do reserves of food. Indeed, new year in Japan is kind of similar to Christmas in France and during three days of festivities women don't cook. It is therefore in an overflow crowd that we visit the fish market.

Around
noon we decide to try to find a sushi restaurant. We've spotted one
which looks not too bad. Let's go for half an hour of waiting in the
restaurant's line. But honestly, it was worth for it! The restaurant was
charming, the sashimis and sushis were really fresh. It was simply
delicious.

After
this short break we go for visiting the area around Tsukiji, we are
heading to Sumida river which is just few hundreds meters away of the
market. The streets are more calm and the crowd turns less dense. We go
up the river for few times until we find a metro station and decide to
go back to Akihabara, my husband wants to do shopping and to finish to
discover the district.

Just
a step from Akihabara is a shrine, the Kanda Myojin shrine. The
contrast between Akihabara animation and this place's reigning calm is
stunning. This over 1270 years old shinto shrine differs from the others
shrines by its ema (small wood plaques where the prayers are written)
decorate with manga characters.

We
decide to end the day at Shinjuku to find places. We are looking for
the Marui annex and Shinjuku Closet Child to forecast the sales period
which start on January the 1st. We get lost and admire the district.

It's quite late when we stop by a restaurant next to Closet Child. The day's surprise: the orders have to be made on a touch screen, there is no contact with the waiters. It was definitely not the best restaurant we have been, but we laugh a lot.

We go back to the apartment. I've got the wonderful idea to do a washing machine... Well, the machine doesn't work (or I should say it doesn't empty after being full of dirty water...). It's 11:30 PM and we have to remove the water by hand using a pan, and have to wash our wet clothes by hand... Our host will help us to resolve this problem the next day evening. It is 1:30 AM when we finished to wring out the linen and went to bed.

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